Både den amerikanska och svenska vänstern bör omvärdera sin syn på politisk korrekthet och ”woke-paradigmet” och istället återgå till att prioritera det kollektiva framför det individuella. Detta skulle dock kräva en uppgörelse med två av liberalismens grundpelare—två värderingar som många dessutom betraktar som ”svenska”: idén om att individen alltid kan och bör stå på egna…
The concept of “biopower” (the power exerted by modern biopolitics) entails, as rightly observed by Gomes Pereira, an “ambiguous movement: a juncture in a life that must be protected at all costs, the invention of others that threaten life, and the emergence of lives that do not deserve to be lived. Thus, we live in…
Introduction The view that God created the world out of nothing (creatio ex-nihilo in latin, huduth in Islamic tradition) is famously embraced by both the Christian fourth century’s thinker Augustine and the Muslim twelfth century’s theologian Al-Ghazali. In spite of their opposition to the idea that the world is eternal, Al-Ghazali and Augustine’s idea of…
Ich stellte diese interessante Frage und versuchte eine Antwort zu geben. Mein Versuch fürhrte mich, ein Essay für die Seminar ”Zeit und Ewigkeit” (Tübingen Universität) zu schreiben. Im ersten Abschnitt werde ich Augustinus Theorie der Zeit und Schöpfung kurz rekonstruieren und einige Probleme vorstellen. Im zweiten Abschnitt werde ich die folgenden Fragen versuchen zu beantworten:…
An emerging new way of doing good is the one proposed by the advocates of Effective Altruism, the philosophical and social movement founded by Peter Singer and William MacAskill. As the name Effective Altruism suggests it is constituted of “two parts”[1]: altruism, by which is simply meant “improving the lives of others”[2] and effective by…
The thomist ethics shares with ancient philosophy the conviction that if someone knows what is good she cannot choose what is bad. Such a view, in fact, brings us back to the Socratic account of virtue according to which human beings are incapable to do harm as long as they have (intellectual) knowledge of what…